Honeymooning in Couture: A Love Story with Iris van Herpen
RACHEL ADDY was honeymooning in Singapore and happened on the amazing Iris van Herpen's Sculpting the Senses exhibition at the ArtScience Museum
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Curriculum Review - Have Your Say
DfE CALL FOR EVIDENCE CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT REVIEW DEADLINE 22nd NOVEMBER 2024 The government’s call for evidence invites US ALL to submit proposals on improving the current curriculum and assessment system. This...
Become A Great Textiles Teacher (BAGTT) Programme 2023-24
*APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED FOR 2023-24* Textiles Skills Centre has been awarded a grant from All Saint Educational Trust for a second year, to run the 1 year programme supporting...
Feedback From The Classroom: Cross Curricular Free Resources
After attending a fantastic Textiles Skills Centre ‘Tea ‘n’ Chat’ lead by Nicky Simpson, on Cross-curricular links, I decided it was time to spread Textiles throughout my school! Nicky had explained...
Eco Printing in the Classroom
Mixing it up in a school Eco Project Rachel Addy, an AO, teaching at GMS Marlow, also a Textile Skills Centre associate member, has passed on her newly found creative...
Feedback From The Classroom 2021
Taken from a blog written by Textiles Teacher Haidee Foy (Maidstone Grammar School for Girls) who used the Textiles Skills Centre ‘Careers in Fashion & Textiles’ Free Resource with her...
Evolving Education Strategies
2020 saw many changes in how we work, learn, teach and socialise. Our constantly evolving needs, behaviours and environment have meant developing new ways of teaching and learning and new...
An Opportunity For Change
COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause disruption and uncertainty – how are we responding and what do we need to do to ensure a sustainable future for the Arts and Design...
Textile Teachers To The Rescue
THE COUNTRY CALLED AND THE TEXTILE TEACHERS ANSWERED The Covid-19 crisis has brought us together like nothing else has. The realisation early on, that the NHS was so short of...
The Future Fashion Loop
Encouraging students to think about how design will help combat climate change! David Attenborough has been hammering it home to us for years, even Prince Charles has banged on about...
Skilling Tomorrow’s Economy
The Future of Work: Skilling Tomorrow’s EconomyWhat should we be preparing our young people for? This was on the agenda for the recent Commonwealth Business Forum debates (April 2018) The...
‘Inspiring Learning’
The joint Food and Textiles event at UEL was a huge success with over 150 delegates attending to hear OFSTED, Department for Education and the exam boards talk about the...
Sew What? Bringing Textiles Lessons into the 21st Century
“Once upon a time there was a room in a school where girls were taught how to sew and it was called needlework…” Back then, those young people were taught...
The Tipping Point For D&T in Schools
The fears that EBacc will squeeze Design and Technology out of the curriculum have never been so real! Can you imagine a cohort of primary and secondary school students not...